Predictions

Best Film Ensemble

Congratulations to Magic 8 Ball for a very impressive 87.50% in predicting the 2016 Oscars winners on Sunday. She actually tied with two other people — Moviefiend and Donny B. — with that top percentage but had the best point total of 33,457 by using her 500 and 200 point bets wisely.

You can see how your score compares to theirs in our leaderboard rankings of all contestants, which also includes links to see each participant’s predictions. Or you can find your score by clicking on “My Award Scores,” which appears in the gold menu bar when you’re signed in to your account.

In a tough year to predict Best Picture, eight of these Experts were able to make that important prediction of “Spotlight”: Adams, Douglas, Jacobs, Mantz, O’Neil, Simanton, Sinha-Roy, and Travers. For another difficult category, only Mathews chose Rylance over Stallone as Best Supporting Actor. Part of Simanton’s great score had him as the only Expert to predict “Writing’s on the Wall” as Best Song.

Among Gold Derby’s five Editors, Matt Noble is in first place with 71% correct (17 of 24 categories). We then have a three-way tie between Marcus Dixon, Rob Licuria, and myself with 67% right. Daniel Montgomery is next with 63%.

See the separate rankings of our Experts, Editors and Users in our special leaderboards that feature top scores per group.